Daily Readings - 30/10/2026

^1:1 From Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus, together with their presiding elders and deacons.

^1:2 We wish you the grace and peace of God our Father and of the Lord Jesus Christ.

^1:3 I thank my God whenever I think of you; and

^1:4 every time I pray for all of you, I pray with joy,

^1:5 remembering how you have helped to spread the Good News from the day you first heard it right up to the present.

^1:6 I am quite certain that the One who began this good work in you will see that it is finished when the Day of Christ Jesus comes.

^1:7 It is only natural that I should feel like this towards you all, since you have shared the privileges which have been mine: both my chains and my work defending and establishing the gospel. You have a permanent place in my heart,

^1:8 and God knows how much I miss you all, loving you as Christ Jesus loves you.

^1:9 My prayer is that your love for each other may increase more and more and never stop improving your knowledge and deepening your perception.

^1:10 so that you can always recognise what is best. This will help you to become pure and blameless, and prepare you for the Day of Christ,

^1:11 when you will reach the perfect goodness which Jesus Christ produces in us for the glory and praise of God.

^110:1 Yahweh’s oracle to you, my Lord, ‘Sit at my right hand and I will make your enemies a footstool for you’.

^110:2 Yahweh will force all your enemies under the sway of your sceptre in Zion.

^110:3 Royal dignity was yours from the day you were born, on the holy mountains, royal from the womb, from the dawn of your earliest days.

^110:4 Yahweh has sworn an oath which he never will retract, ‘You are a priest of the order of Melchizedek, and for ever’.

^110:5 The Lord is at your right hand. When he grows angry he shatters kings,

^110:6 he gives the nations their deserts, smashing their skulls, he heaps the wide world with corpses.

^110:7 Drinking from the stream as he goes, he can hold his head high in victory.

^14:1 Now on a sabbath day he had gone for a meal to the house of one of the leading Pharisees; and they watched him closely.

^14:2 ‘There in front of him was a man with dropsy,

^14:3 and Jesus addressed the lawyers and Pharisees. ‘Is it against the law’ he asked ‘to cure a man on the sabbath, or not?’

^14:4 But they remained silent, so he took the man and cured him and sent him away.

^14:5 Then he said to them, ‘Which of you here, if his son falls into a well, or his ox, will not pull him out on a sabbath day without hesitation?’

^14:6 And to this they could find no answer.